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The book aimed, starting with a local analysis of two different realities, one Italian, at the Italian school for immigrants, the Cooperative Ruah in Bergamo, and one German, the approach towards asylum seekers of the city of Chemnitz, to make a bigger comparison between integration and immigration policies of two European countries, Italy and Germany. The purpose was to retrace what the requirements are that immigrants must complete in order to reside in Italy or Germany and the barriers that they may face, while accessing the Italian or German labor market, and to prove that immigrants, if properly integrated into the host society and labor market, can be a strength to European Member States instead of a weakness.

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Francesconi, Valentina
Born and raised in Tuscany, Italy, Valentina Francesconi graduated from the University of Chemnitz in 2016 with a Master´s degree in European Integration with a focus on Central Eastern Europe.

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